matplotlib

Plotting 3D Polygons in python-matplotlib

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I was unsuccessful browsing web for a solution for the following simple question: How to draw 3D polygon (say a filled rectangle or triangle) using vertices values? I have tried many ideas but all failed, see: from mpl_toolkits.mplot3d import Axes3D from matplotlib.collections import PolyCollection import matplotlib.pyplot as plt fig = plt.figure() ax = Axes3D(fig) x … Read more

How to plot a gradient color line in matplotlib?

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To state it in a general form, I’m looking for a way to join several points with a gradient color line using matplotlib, and I’m not finding it anywhere.
To be more specific, I’m plotting a 2D random walk with a one color line. But, as the points have a relevant sequence, I would like to look at the plot and see where the data has moved. A gradient colored line would do the trick. Or a line with gradually changing transparency.

Matplotlib and Ipython-notebook: Displaying exactly the figure that will be saved

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I am using ipython-notebook a lot at the moment for numerical analysis and plotting of data. In the process of preparing publication quality plots there is a lot of tweaking to get the layout just right, however I can’t get ipython/matplotlib to show me what I will be saving in the browser. Making the process more painful than it should be because I have to keep opening the new output file to check it.